Texas A&M University has added several water resources faculty members in the past year. New faculty include:
Georgianne Moore, Assistant Professor, Rangeland Ecology and Management. Dr. Moore, with expertise in ecohydrology and woody vegetation management, joined the department in February 2005. Her particular interest is the role of vegetation in the water cycle and how vegetation management/change affects water resources. Dr. Moore is conducting research in Texas and New Mexico, comparing water use by native and invasive woody species in riparian ecosystems under different management regimes.
Douglass Shaw, Professor, Agricultural Economics and Recreation, Park, Tourism Sciences. His expertise is the area of valuation of water quality and quantity changes, emphasis on health risks and uncertainty; value of health risk reductions associated with arsenic in drinking water; and value of increased water supply at recreation areas.
Raghupathy Karthikeyan, Assistant Professor, Biological and Agricultural Engineering. Dr. Karthikeyan joined department in the Fall 2005 semester. His research involves application of spatial science tools in water quality and natural resources management as well agriculture, biological and homeland security, disease trading and control, and disaster management and response. He also researches the fate, transport and removal of contaminants in terrestrial and aquatic environments.
